[Feature]: Send category info in EPG to Jellyfin

[spoctoss]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Maybe this isn't the right place and maybe there is a solution I am missing but I was hoping to be able to use the built in jellyfin categories which seem to rely on an extra parameter being sent in the EPG data. Right now it isnt there so nothing is caregorized nicely in the main Live TV section.

Describe the solution you'd like

I wanted the EPG data to include whatever data field is need to be able to match against the configured categories in the jellyfin EPG config.

Additional context

Nothing Extra

[jesmannstl]

Category info is sent from the Dispatcharr EPG automatically as long as your source EPG includes the details. This is a program output from my Dispatcharr EPG

  <programme start="20251009190000 +0000" stop="20251009200000 +0000" channel="72956">
    <title>The Social</title>
    <desc>The legendary Dini Petty joins the panel.</desc>
    <category>Episode</category>
    <category>Series</category>
    <category>Talk</category>
    <episode-num system="onscreen">S13E27</episode-num>
    <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">12.26.</episode-num>
    <video>
      <quality>HDTV</quality>
    </video>
    <rating system="TV Parental Guidelines">
      <value>TV-PG</value>
    </rating>
    <credits>
      <actor>Melissa Grelo</actor>
      <actor>Cynthia Loyst</actor>
      <actor>Andrea Bain</actor>
    </credits>
    <date>20251009</date>
    <icon src="https://zap2it.tmsimg.com/assets/p10115884_b_h9_ah.jpg" />
    <new />
  </programme>

[jesmannstl]

Output to Jellyfin

[spoctoss]

Thanks @jesmannstl looks like the epg data I was using didn't have those fields so that makes sense now.

[viletuna]

i realize this is closed but i would like to see maybe a feature like this for groups. lots of EPG data doesn't have categories. if we have groups created in dispatcharr then have them baked in into the epg as categories before sending to jellyfin that would help greatly in organizing